Sagay massacre
| Sagay massacre | |
|---|---|
| Part of 2017–19 Negros Island killings | |
Location of Sagay on the island of Negros | |
| Location | Sagay, Negros Occidental, Philippines |
| Date | October 20, 2018 ~9:45 PM (PhST) |
| Target | Sugarcane farmers |
Attack type | Shooting, massacre |
| Weapons | |
| Deaths | 9 |
No. of participants | 5 or 6 |
| Motive | Land dispute |
| Accused | Former farmers of the land Revolutionary Proletarian Army (New People's Army breakaway group) |
The Sagay massacre occurred when a group of gunmen shot and killed nine sugarcane farmers, including four women and two children, while they were eating dinner in a makeshift tent on a farm in Sagay, Negros Occidental, on October 20, 2018. The farmers were members of the National Federation of Sugar Workers (NFSW), and the massacre may have been motivated by ongoing conflicts over land reform in the Philippines.
The massacre was part of a series of killings carried out in the Negros provinces against labelled Communists and their sympathizers, and follows the similarly motivated Escalante massacre of 1985.